scintec1.variables {readmet}

read the variable descriptions from a file in Scintec Format-1 format

Description

get timeseries of non-profile variables from a a Scintec atmospheric profiler data format "Format-1" (extension ".mnd")

Usage

scintec1.variables(file, header = list())

Arguments

file

name (and path if necessary) of the file to read

header

optionally, instead of reading the header from the file again, the output of a previous call to scintec1.header on the same file can be supplied via this argument.

Value

data.frame; each entry corresponds to one variable. The columns are:

label

Name of variable

symbol

short name; corresponds to list name in scintec1.profile,scintec1.nonprofile, and read.scintec1

unit

physical unit

type

code describing for example averaging, profile/nonprofile, measured, derived or assimilated. See Scintec Software Manual

error.mask

See Scintec Software Manual

gap.value

value in files representing missing values of this variable

Author(s)

Clemens Druee

References

Scintec APRun software manual

Examples

vars <- scintec1.variables(system.file("extdata", "example.mnd", package="readmet"))
head(vars)